China 


BELGIUM 


7,000,000 


£hlNA 

400.000.000 

PEOPLE 


It  takes  all  of  them  to  equal  China. 

China  s Renaissance 

Today  is  China’s  renaissance.  Do 
you  realize  what  it  means? 

When  400,000,000  people,  practically 
as  many  as  there  are  in  the  United  States, 
the  Allied  nations  of  Europe  and  Russia, 
learn  to  develop  the  greatest  natural 
resources  on  earth,  will  they  become  a 
menace  or  an  asset  to  civilization? 

The  answer  depends  largely  upon 
Christianity.  If  ever  we  are  to  impress 
China’s  millions,  the  chance  is  during 
this  formative  period.  Now  they  are 
turning  to  Christianity  by  the  thousands. 
The  membership  of  our  own  church  has 
more  than  doubled  since  the  beginning 
of  the  century,  and  the  future  of  China 
depends  upon  whether  we  are  willing  to 
help  now. 


ITALY 

35.000.000 

FRANCE 

39.000.000 

BRITISH  ISLES 

45.000.000 

UNITED 

STATES 

103.000.000 

RUSSIA 

175.000.000 

You  Can  Help  Put  Christianity 
into  China  s Democracy 

$10 

Will  support  a rural  Chinese  evangelist 
for  a month. 

$25 

Will  finance  an  evangelistic  tour  by 
students. 

$100 

Will  maintain  a native  pastor  for  four 
months. 

$500 

Will  house  a pastor’s  family. 

$1,000 

Will  build  a brick  church  in  a small  city. 

$5,000 

Will  build  an  institutional  church  in  a 
strategic  walled  city. 


In  the  United  States  one  person  in  166  is  a teacher ; 
in  China  one  in  3,000. 


A Nation  Starting  to  School 

Since  China  abandoned  the  old  sys- 
tem of  education  which  it  took  1500 
years  to  build,  the  whole  nation  is  so 
eager  for  western  learning  that  thou- 
sands flock  to  lectures  on  the  gyroscope 
or  to  demonstrations  of  forestry,  conser- 
vation, or  hygiene. 

Missionaries  have  assisted  in  the 
establishment  of  a new  educational 
system,  but  there  are  still  1,000,000 
children  in  Methodist  territory  who 
have  no  schools. 

Today  is  the  beginning  of  an  impera- 
tive opportunity  for  the  Christian 
Church.  Teachers  must  be  taught,  and 
their  influence  will  decide  whether  China 
shall  be  Christian  or  agnostic.  If  the 
Church  at  home  will  only  send  the  men 
and  the  money,  we  can  put  the  stamp  of 
Christianity  upon  China’s  education. 


You  Can  Help  Christianize 
China  s Schools 

$5 

Will  supply  a Chinese  student  with 
books  for  a year. 

$25 

Will  give  a student  Christian  instruc- 
tion for  a year. 

$50 

Will  make  possible  a Christian  primary 
school. 

$100 

Will  maintain  a student  in  theological 
school  for  a year. 

$1,000 

Will  provide  a model  primary  school 
building. 


$25,000 

Will  erect  a building  in  a university. 


“Shake  Well  Before  Taking” 


Science  or  Quackery? 

“Beetle  larvae,  dried  silkworms,  scales 
of  the  ant  eater,  elephants’  skin,  ante- 
lope horns,  fossil  bones” — this  is  an 
official  list  of  medicines  carried  through 
a Yangtze  port.  Do  you  wonder  that 
the  China  Yearbook  says  Western  medi- 
cine as  yet  occupies  a very  minor  place 
in  China? 

China  is  anxious  to  learn  our  methods, 
and  every  year  she  sends  about  five 
hundred  of  her  young  people  to  our 
medical  schools.  The  Chinese  come  to 
our  hospitals,  too,  and  now  for  every 
dollar  Westerners  give  toward  medical 
work  the  Chinese  themselves,  out  of 
wages  of  from  eight  to  fifteen  cents 
a day,  are  giving  seventy-five  cents. 

The  medical  missionary  has  done 
what  he  could  for  China,  but  the  reason 
he  has  not  done  more  is  that  there  is 
only  one  of  him  to  800,000  people. 


You  Can  Help  Convert  Cli  ma 
from  Quackery 

$50 

Will  support  a student  nurse  for  a year. 

$75 

Will  equip  a memorial  ward  in  a hospital. 

$450 

Will  support  a trained  native  doctor 
for  a year. 

$650 

Will  send  an  American  graduate  nurse 
to  help  an  overworked  doctor. 

$1,000 

Will  build  or  equip  a modern  dispensary. 

$10,000 

Will  build  or  equip  a hospital  plant. 


War  conditions  and  the  uncertain  rate  of  exchange 
make  all  of  the  figures  used  in  this  book  only- 
approximate. 


Published  by 

cTKe  Centenary  Commission 
of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions 
Metkodist  Episcopal  Ckurck 

150  Fifth  Avenue 
New  York 
1913 


